Currently, programming languages that support COMPLEX arithmetic as well as REAL oblige compilers to implement certain obscure optimizations lest expressions mixing REAL with COMPLEX variables engender superfluous or even harmful computation. This can be avoided if the language provides, for the compiler's use, a third IMAGINARY data-type about which the programmer need know only the name of the language's imaginary unit I or i or j. And on computers conforming to IEEE 754/854, the scheme proposed here honors complex conjugation in ways that other schemes cannot.
Title
Augmenting a Programming Language with Complex Arithmetic
Published
1991-12-16
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
CSD-92-667
Type
Text
Extent
8 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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